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Sep

How to improve your zencart site speed?

If you have a very large zencart store with large number of products and categories ,following are some suggestions to improve you zencart site speed.
1. Login to your zencart store admin panel. Go to Admin->Config->My Store->Show Category Counts option and set Show Category Counts = false.

2.you can also turn off categories count for the admin section. Click on Admin->Config->My Store->Show Category Counts option and set Show Category Counts = false.

3. Disable the Left and Right column sideboxes if you think you don’t need it.

Just go to Admin->Tools->Layout Boxes Controller and find the sidebox you don’t want and disable it.

4 Never add large number of products in a single category. Use subcategories instead and divide products in to subcategories . This will improve zencart site performance as well its also help the customers to find the products easily.

5. optimized database tables is always make difference in site speed. So optimize all tables of your zencart store database.

6. Also use optimized images for you zencart store.you can use any image optimization tool. It will really help to speed up your website.

7. Go to your administrator area and go to Admin->Config->GZip Compression->Enable GZip Compression option and set it to 1.

For more information about the GZip compression in zencart check the following link .